diff --git a/tools/dicttool/etc/Android.mk b/tools/dicttool/etc/Android.mk
index 03d4a96ee..1eab70fc1 100644
--- a/tools/dicttool/etc/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/dicttool/etc/Android.mk
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
 LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := eng
-LOCAL_PREBUILT_EXECUTABLES := dicttool
+LOCAL_PREBUILT_EXECUTABLES := dicttool makedict
 include $(BUILD_HOST_PREBUILT)
diff --git a/tools/makedict/etc/Android.mk b/tools/dicttool/etc/makedict
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 64%
rename from tools/makedict/etc/Android.mk
rename to tools/dicttool/etc/makedict
index 1b7d7cf0e..fffeb2376
--- a/tools/makedict/etc/Android.mk
+++ b/tools/dicttool/etc/makedict
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2012, The Android Open Source Project
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 # You may obtain a copy of the License at
 #
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 #
 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
@@ -12,8 +13,6 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
-include $(CLEAR_VARS)
-
-LOCAL_PREBUILT_EXECUTABLES := makedict
-include $(BUILD_HOST_PREBUILT)
+# Dicttool supports making the dictionary using the 'makedict' command and
+# the same arguments that the old 'makedict' command used to accept.
+dicttool makedict $@
diff --git a/tools/makedict/Android.mk b/tools/makedict/Android.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index cac3a831c..000000000
--- a/tools/makedict/Android.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
-include $(CLEAR_VARS)
-
-MAKEDICT_CORE_SOURCE_DIRECTORY := ../../java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/makedict
-
-LOCAL_MAIN_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under,$(MAKEDICT_CORE_SOURCE_DIRECTORY))
-LOCAL_TOOL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under,src)
-LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(LOCAL_TOOL_SRC_FILES)
-LOCAL_JAR_MANIFEST := etc/manifest.txt
-LOCAL_MODULE := makedict
-LOCAL_JAVA_LIBRARIES := junit
-
-include $(BUILD_HOST_JAVA_LIBRARY)
-include $(LOCAL_PATH)/etc/Android.mk
diff --git a/tools/makedict/etc/makedict b/tools/makedict/etc/makedict
deleted file mode 100755
index 7c1c02e85..000000000
--- a/tools/makedict/etc/makedict
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Copyright 2011, The Android Open Source Project
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Set up prog to be the path of this script, including following symlinks,
-# and set up progdir to be the fully-qualified pathname of its directory.
-prog="$0"
-while [ -h "${prog}" ]; do
-    newProg=`/bin/ls -ld "${prog}"`
-    newProg=`expr "${newProg}" : ".* -> \(.*\)$"`
-    if expr "x${newProg}" : 'x/' >/dev/null; then
-        prog="${newProg}"
-    else
-        progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
-        prog="${progdir}/${newProg}"
-    fi
-done
-oldwd=`pwd`
-progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
-cd "${progdir}"
-progdir=`pwd`
-prog="${progdir}"/`basename "${prog}"`
-cd "${oldwd}"
-
-jarfile=makedict.jar
-frameworkdir="$progdir"
-if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
-then
-    frameworkdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/tools/lib
-    libdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/tools/lib
-fi
-if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
-then
-    frameworkdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/framework
-    libdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/lib
-fi
-if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
-then
-    echo `basename "$prog"`": can't find $jarfile"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ] ; then
-    jarpath=`cygpath -w  "$frameworkdir/$jarfile"`
-    progdir=`cygpath -w  "$progdir"`
-else
-    jarpath="$frameworkdir/$jarfile"
-fi
-
-# need to use "java.ext.dirs" because "-jar" causes classpath to be ignored
-# might need more memory, e.g. -Xmx128M
-exec java -ea -Djava.ext.dirs="$frameworkdir" -jar "$jarpath" "$@"
diff --git a/tools/makedict/etc/manifest.txt b/tools/makedict/etc/manifest.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f085e7c8..000000000
--- a/tools/makedict/etc/manifest.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Main-Class: com.android.inputmethod.latin.makedict.DictionaryMaker